I have a Facebook and often someone will post something that they think their friends should repost.  Usually it will be something about if you know someone who is a policeman/fireman or about your mom or whatever.  Denise posted this last night so I had to repost and then put here.  Just hadda.

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"Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums-and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen."
- Charles de Lint

Today is:
Pop Music Chart Day
Tom Thumb Day
Trivia Day
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I rarely read Nonfiction.  I did on this occasion check out Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks which talks about how she wrote her many, many great books.  In the books it claims that "One of her most personal creations, Ariadne Oliver, is generally accepted as Christie's own alter ego."  In Chapter 2 of Dead Man's Folly Ariadne speaks of how to ( Read more... )

"Planning to get better at planning meetings results in perfectly planned meeting planning meetings."

WHAT?  Did that come out right?
Don't remember where this came from since I found it loose in my unfinished stories that I may or may not ever finish.  Some of the stories made me cringe.

" -Good night, sweet prince; 
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!-"

Just finished watching Hamlet movie version starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart.  Bravo! Shakespeare sure knew his stuff.  He really makes me concentrate.

I've been confused by this quote in the book Unnatural Causes by P. D. James:

There are few couples as unhappy as those who are too proud to admit their unhappiness.

Today you are you
That is truer than true
There is no one alive
Who is youer than you.

- Dr. Seuss

It was funny how people were people everywhere you went, even if the people concerned weren't the people the people who made up the phrase "people are people everywhere" had traditionally thought of as people.

- Terry Pratchett The Fifth Elephant

This is from The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett.

"It's not just that things in the future can affect things in the past," he said.  "Things that didn't happen but might have happened can...affect things that really happened.  Even things that happened and shouldn't have happened and were removed still have, oh, call 'em shadows in time, things ( Read more... )

I am reading Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.  Here's a quote to ponder:  How do the makers of dictionaries look up the spellings of the words?

Hmmmm.  

   

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